Re: Salome v3.2.1 - Animation

Hi,
So far as we understood from your post you create deformed shape presentation and try to animate it.
The sequence of operation must be following:
1. Right-click on the field in the Object Browser.
2. From the pop-up menu select Sweep instead of Animation.

Sweep allows to display pseudo-animation of a field presentation. For creation of this pseudo-animation you should take one field presentation generated on the base of ONE Time Step.
In comparison with sweeping, animations are created on the base of frames, displaying field presentations generated on EVERY Time Stamp of your field.><span>

Re: Salome v3.2.1 - Animation

Igor Nazarov wrote:
Hi,
So far as we understood from your post you create deformed shape presentation and try to animate it.
The sequence of operation must be following:
1. Right-click on the field in the Object Browser.
2. From the pop-up menu select Sweep instead of Animation.

Sweep allows to display pseudo-animation of a field presentation. For creation of this pseudo-animation you should take one field presentation generated on the base of ONE Time Step.
In comparison with sweeping, animations are created on the base of frames, displaying field presentations generated on EVERY Time Stamp of your field.

Igor,

Thank you for your QUICk reply! From what you write, I understand that I can "Animate" only if my analysis is a time stepped one. For a simple linear static analysis only "Sweep" is available NOT "Animate". Am I correct?

JMB

Re: Salome v3.2.1 - Animation

Re: Salome v3.2.1 - Animation

BTW, (maybe you know) - in SALOME 3.2 you can write your animation into AVI file . It's necessary to have mjpegtools installed in your Linux and point PATH on it. Then make your animation in Points viewer (turn on "Start recoridng" in the viewer toolbar before, if you have mpeg tools this functionaltiy becomes available).

Re: Salome v3.2.1 - Animation

BTW, (maybe you know) - in SALOME 3.2 you can write your animation into AVI file . It's necessary to have mjpegtools installed in your Linux and point PATH on it. Then make your animation in Points viewer (turn on "Start recoridng" in the viewer toolbar before, if you have mpeg tools this functionaltiy becomes available).

Sergey,

Thanks for the information, but I did NOT know I could write animation into AVI files. I have installed mjpegtools using "apt-get install mjpegtools", but I do not understand the rest of your instructions. I tried to "locate mjpegtools" so I can point to it using the PATH variable, but I am lost.

Also, I do not understand what you mean by "make your animation in the Points viewer (turn on start recording ...) etc. etc. What do you mean by Points viewer? Where do I turn on "start recording" in Salome? Could you please give some detailed instructions to a novice?